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today i had a busy day, but i was still abble to brew a batch of stout and do a kind of kegerator.

the brew was nice and easy, i improved a bit my eficiency, and everything went well! :thumb:

here's the recipe:

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 18.5
Total Grain (kg): 4.790
Total Hops (g): 75.00
Original Gravity (OG): 1.054 (°P): 13.3
Final Gravity (FG): 1.014 (°P): 3.6
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 5.31 %
Colour (SRM): 34.5 (EBC): 68.0
Bitterness (IBU): 41.0 (Average - No Chill Adjusted)
Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70
Boil Time (Minutes): 75

Grain Bill
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3.600 kg Pilsner (75.16%)
0.650 kg Flaked Barley (13.57%)
0.290 kg Roasted Barley (6.05%)
0.150 kg Crystal 60 (3.13%)
0.100 kg Carafa III malt (2.09%)

Hop Bill
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40.0 g Fuggles Pellet (4% Alpha) @ 75 Minutes (First Wort) (2.2 g/L)
35.0 g Fuggles Pellet (4% Alpha) @ 15 Minutes (Boil) (1.9 g/L)

Misc Bill
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Single step Infusion at 67°C for 120 Minutes.
Fermented at 20°C with Safale S-04

i was expecting 17 liters with an OG of 1049, but i got it a bit higher..... not a problem

here some fotos:
Milling the grain




Starting the mash




sleeping time


colecting the wort from the mash


boiling


Mean while trying my kegerator


First pints from my kegerator and flavor hops fr the stout ( beer was a nice best bitter)




transferring the wort to the fv:




some hops in the kettle


and the last piglet i was roasting mean while


Finishing with a nice APA, nice dry hopping in the keg with citra



che

Nice grain bill. Out of interest, did you cap the mash with the dark malts or mash all together, full duration?

First ever roasted piglet brewday pic, quality

alexlark wrote:Nice grain bill. Out of interest, did you cap the mash with the dark malts or mash all together, full duration?

i added the dark grains at the beginning of the mash. Did a glucan rest with the flaked barley.

Monkeybrew wrote:First ever roasted piglet brewday pic, quality

thanks usually in my free days, I help my family at our restaurant, roasting piglets and Kids in oven! Typical dishes here, in this region of Portugal. While i m roasting, i have time to brew

Cheers. My first AG stout was a Guinness clone. I messed up the brew and had something tasting very bitter/acrid, I couldn't drink it and had to tip it after 12 months. Had 2 pints of Guinness draught on the weekend and the same taste was detectable but every so slightly. I'm going to have to revisit the brew at some time. I'm thinking about substituting some black malt for chocolate.

this is tanins, they come from the dark malts, you use dehusked roasted barley, to avoid that!! or use simple grain bill: 70% pale malt, 20% flaked barley and 10% roasted barley. With this bill, you cant go wrong!! OG:1046, Fg:1010 and 45IBUs!!

Cheers

yesterday in the morning i kegged this batch! Ended up with a FG of 1017, giving 4,81% ABV. it is carbonating now, and will be in time for my birthday party in 3 weeks! i will have two beers running in my kegerator! this stout and a Mango APA that i made for the ladies!! for the shitty lager drinkers i have a barrel of regular lager that i have in my restaurant!!
In a week i will post a foto of the carbonation test pint B)

Cheers

rui wrote:this is tanins, they come from the dark malts, you use dehusked roasted barley, to avoid that!!

Steeping grains in cold liquour rather than mashing can achieve the same thing. Think of mashing dark grains as like holding coffee on a hot plate for an hour.

yesterday, i tried this one to check carbonation!! scientific porpouses, only...... spot on, and flavors are wonderfull...one of my best until now....

here's some fotos of the beer





Now will stay at 5ºC for a couple of weeks until my birthday party!!

cheers

It seems counter intuitive to drink Stout when the weather is balmy but it can be lovely at "fridge" temps on a hot day. Very popular in the Caribbean and parts of Africa.

actually, its not so warm here, at the moment...14ºC at the moment....and cloudy...... but for me its always a moment for a stout and i will have more beer avaiable at the party, that people can choose what they want?

Looks brilliant- great head in that stout!

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thanks!! its a lovely pint indeed!!!

cheers